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Apologies in advance, this is a longish post ...
I am wanting to store all of my music digitally on a NAS, the NAS will also be used for other purposes such as file storage and short term backup etc ... It may also be used to stream video in due course, but this is way down the list of priorities.
I'll be using a QNAP TS-453A 4 bay device as the NAS and WD Red HDD's. The NAS itself is not where I need the sense check, though ... I intend to use ethernet btw, though won't entirely rule out wi-fi.
The main aim here is to be able to play the music initially in the living room through my existing hi-fi system.
I have a pretty good hi-fi system, a rega CD deck, rega pre-amp and 2 off rega Exon monoblock power amplifiers. In terms of controls, the pre-amp has an on/off button, an input selector and a volume control. The power amps only have an on/off button. The pre-amp only has RCA (I think that is what they are called) type inputs, but plenty of them, no usb, no network, no wireless/bluetooth ...
The digital music will be stored on the NAS, in the highest quality possible, which I may well need advice over too - think flac but is that the right way?
I would like to make use of the amplification so am looking to feed into the pre-amp so believe I will need a network hi-fi server to achieve this. I have seen all in one servers with amplification, but don't see the point in that as my amplification is proven and high quality. I'd be looking for one that basically acts as the go-between and from what I have read "upscales" appropriately, i.e. with suitable DACs ... From what I have read they all seem to have multiple options to control them from apps on the phone through to remote controls so am less concerned there.
The type of hi-fi server I'm looking at is Cambridge Audio CXN , ONKYO NS-6130 and Pioneer N-30AE .
So, the music would stream from the NAS to the server, by "Upscaled/DAC-ified, and fed into the pre-amp ...The question is would that work?
Thoughts and suggestions much appreciated as always.
I am wanting to store all of my music digitally on a NAS, the NAS will also be used for other purposes such as file storage and short term backup etc ... It may also be used to stream video in due course, but this is way down the list of priorities.
I'll be using a QNAP TS-453A 4 bay device as the NAS and WD Red HDD's. The NAS itself is not where I need the sense check, though ... I intend to use ethernet btw, though won't entirely rule out wi-fi.
The main aim here is to be able to play the music initially in the living room through my existing hi-fi system.
I have a pretty good hi-fi system, a rega CD deck, rega pre-amp and 2 off rega Exon monoblock power amplifiers. In terms of controls, the pre-amp has an on/off button, an input selector and a volume control. The power amps only have an on/off button. The pre-amp only has RCA (I think that is what they are called) type inputs, but plenty of them, no usb, no network, no wireless/bluetooth ...
The digital music will be stored on the NAS, in the highest quality possible, which I may well need advice over too - think flac but is that the right way?
I would like to make use of the amplification so am looking to feed into the pre-amp so believe I will need a network hi-fi server to achieve this. I have seen all in one servers with amplification, but don't see the point in that as my amplification is proven and high quality. I'd be looking for one that basically acts as the go-between and from what I have read "upscales" appropriately, i.e. with suitable DACs ... From what I have read they all seem to have multiple options to control them from apps on the phone through to remote controls so am less concerned there.
The type of hi-fi server I'm looking at is Cambridge Audio CXN , ONKYO NS-6130 and Pioneer N-30AE .
So, the music would stream from the NAS to the server, by "Upscaled/DAC-ified, and fed into the pre-amp ...The question is would that work?
Thoughts and suggestions much appreciated as always.